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GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
This intermediate-level course guides therapists about the biological, social and psychological complexities of old age and help them answer the question, "What does it take to live well into our hundreds?" Research indicates that only 30% of longevity is genetic. That means that 70% is mental and lifestyle. Solidly based on aging research and studies of vital centenarians, the course helps therapists learn practical strategies for helping their clients and themselves live longer, healthier and happier. The course addresses how and why Americans are living decades longer than their parents, four attitudes that foster living longer, healthier, and happier and thirty six beliefs that foster living longer, healthier and happier. The course is comprised of three chapters from Defy Aging by Michael Brickey, Ph.D., ABPP. Defy Aging has been featured on Oprah, CNN and the Voice of America. It was a finalist in Foreword magazine's Book of the Year Awards. It has been critically acclaimed by Dr. Bernie Siegel, Betty Friedan, Sam Keen, four past presidents of the American Psychological Association and Dr. Ronald Klatz, President of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
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Educational Objectives:
This course will teach psychotherapists to
- Explain how and why American life expectancy has jumped from 47 to 77 years between 1900 and 2000.
- Utilize in their work with their clients the 4 attitudes that foster living longer, healthier and happier.
- Define the biological, social and psychological aspects of aging.
- Utilize in their work 36 beliefs that foster living longer, healthier and happier.
- Demonstrate a positive outlook about living well into one's hundreds.
- Describe strategies for clarifying and enhancing our self-concepts as our clients' age.
Course Syllabus: Book's Table of Contents
- You Are Going to Live Longer - Will You Choose to Live Well?
The longevity paradigm shift
- What can current centenarians tell us?
- What does it take to live well over a hundred years?
- A vision of the future and an ageless society.
- Why live so long?
- The choice.
- 36 Beliefs That Foster Your Longevity
- How beliefs profoundly affect our mental and physical health.
- Beliefs that promote aging and beliefs that promote longevity.
- Optimism, Gratitude and Embracing Lifelong Learning and Change
- Optimistic and pessimistic dogs.
- What optimists do that is different.
- Explanatory Style of Optimists and Pessimists.
- Pessimists experience more depression.
- Pessimists have more health problems.
- Optimists are better liked and more successful.
- Pessimists can become optimists.
- When you shouldn't be an optimist.
- Optimistic and pessimistic metaphors.
- Gratitude and perspective.
- Other ways to feel gratitude.
- Embracing lifelong learning and change.
- Resources
- References
For Author's Bio, Click Here.
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